Test 7 · ★ · Gulliver's Travels, A Voyage to Lilliput, part 75: Gullive…

what was the mad war about, like seriously?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · What happens: be · To what, where: mad war

This is test 7 · ★ of lesson 1488 «Gulliver's Travels, A Voyage to Lilliput, part 75: Gulliver's horse show, his freedom, and his plan to seize Blefuscu's fleet» of the books course of Mova's primary school. The page gives the question's syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause, then the 4 options as the student saw them, each with its tree and pragmatics. Every text is parsed by Mova itself. How the student answered it, with the score of every option and why: the test at school.

The question

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	5 war	nsubj
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 war	cop
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 war	det
4	mad	mad	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 war	amod
5	war	war	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
6	about	about	ADV	_	5 war	advmod
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 seriously	punct
8	like	like	ADP	_	9 seriously	case
9	seriously	seriously	ADV	_	6 about	conj
10	?	?	PUNCT	_	5 war	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	past		the mad war				about property	tree rules

One row per clause the reader finds. «not said here»: a role filled from the clause above. «roles by»: a VerbNet class and frame when one fits the verb, else the reader's rules on the tree.

The options

Option 1 · ← Mova's choice

Eggs, that's all

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Eggs	egg	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Eggs	punct
3	that	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	1 Eggs	nmod
4	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 all	cop
5	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	3 that	conj

The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

Option 2

Who got the last bit of cake

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	2 got	nsubj
2	got	get	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 bit	det
4	last	last	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 bit	amod
5	bit	bit	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 got	obj
6	of	of	ADP	_	7 cake	case
7	cake	cake	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 bit	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	get	past		the last bit of cake					vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer bit=Stimulus

Option 3

Breaking eggs

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Breaking	break	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
2	eggs	egg	NOUN	Number=Plur	1 Breaking	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	break	gerund		eggs					vn hurt-40.8.3-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer egg=Patient

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

Breaking eggs the wrong end

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Breaking	break	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
2	eggs	egg	NOUN	Number=Plur	1 Breaking	obj
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 end	det
4	wrong	wrong	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 end	amod
5	end	end	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Breaking	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	break	gerund		eggs					vn break-45.1 «NP V NP ADJ»: agent=Agent egg=Patient end=Result

Text: the tests of Mova's primary school, written for Mova (world/data/school/), as the course runner gave them to the student. Trees: Mova's own parse — the en model on the CPU, when the site is built — not checked by a teacher; they may be wrong. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), each text read on its own. Elamur Cosmic License.

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